I'm Kevin Dela Rosa an alumnus Carnegie Mellon's Language Technology Institute. In addition to my masters degree in language technology, I have a bachelors degree in Software Engineering & Physics from the University of Texas at Arlington. In the past I worked at ARRI, NIST, and SPAWAR, and collaborated with NASA MSFC folks.
My academic interests include applied machine learning, question answering, information retrieval, multimedia analysis / retrieval (music & video), and social media. Outside of work I'm interested in astrophysics, astrobiology, web development, music recording, comics, science fiction, and stand-up comedy.
After graduating from the LTI I started working for Amazon.com. Visit my official website, http://kevindelarosa.com, for more up to date information on myself. Also, if you are an LTI student interested in opportunities at amazon, feel free to drop me a line
Education
M.S. Computer Science in Language Technologies, August 2011, Advisor: Maxine Eskenazi
Coursework: Machine Learning, Algorithms in Natural Language Processing, Question Answering Lab, Multimedia Databases & Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Software Engineering for Information Systems, Information Extraction, Language & Statistics, Social Media Analysis, Experimental Information Retrieval
B.S. Software Engineering & Physics, Summa Cum Laude, May 2009
Select Coursework: Algorithms & Data Structures, Software Engineering, Stochastic Models, Probability, Design Patterns, Database Systems, Linear Algebra, Software Testing, Computational Physics, Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics
Publications
LADS: Rapid Development of a Learning-To-Rank Based Related Entity Finding System using Open Advancement
Bo Lin, Kevin Dela Rosa, Rushin Shah and Nitin Agarwal
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval's First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (SIGIR: EOS 2011). 2011. PDF
Topical Clustering of Tweets
Kevin Dela Rosa, Rushin Shah, Bo Lin, Anatole Gershman, Robert Frederking
Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval's 3rd Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining (SIGIR: SWSM 2011). 2011. PDF
Improving Cross-Document Co-Reference with Semi-Supervised Information Extraction Models
Rushin Shah, Bo Lin, Kevin Dela Rosa, Anatole Gershman, Robert Frederking
Proceedings of the Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (SIGML 2011). 2011. PDF
Effect of Word Complexity on L2 Vocabulary Learning
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
Proceedings of the the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies's 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL-HLT: BEA 2011). 2011. PDF
Self-Assessment of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2011). 2011. PDF
Boosted Ranking Models: A Unifying Framework for Ranking Prediction
Kevin Dela Rosa, Vangelis Metsis, Vassilis Athitsos
To appear in Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS Journal). 2011. Preprint PDF Final version coming soon.
Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
Proceedings of the 24th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS 2011). 2011. PDF
The advection of supergranuales by the Sun's axisymmetric flows
David Hathaway, Peter Williams, Kevin Dela Rosa, Manfred Cuntz
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), 725:1082-1090, 2010 December 10. PDF
Multimodal learning of words: A study on the use of speech synthesis to reinforce written text in L2 language learning
Kevin Dela Rosa, Gabriel Parent, Maxine Eskenazi
Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2010). 2010. PDF
Text classifcation methodologies applied to micro-text in military chat
Kevin Dela Rosa, Jeffrey Ellen
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2009). 2009. PDF
Talks
Benefits of Automated Combinatorial Software Testing - 8/08/2007
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD
Select Course Projects
Open Advancement of Question Answering, Spring 2010
Question Answering, Carnegie Mellon
- Collaborated with other students in a lab course to build a basic question answering system from scratch that answers factoid questions from TREC data sets. Focused on software architecture changes and answer selection algorithms.
Programmable Network Simulator, Fall 2008 to Spring 2009
Senior Design, University of Texas at Arlington
- Worked on a team that created a programmable router for a two semester senior capstone project. Was team leader, and focused on technical documentation, graphical user interface, and serial port communication.
